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Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. - Louis Kahn

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. – Louis Kahn

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Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. – Louis Kahn

Category:
Beauty
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Louis Kahn
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Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. – Louis Kahn

Category:
architecture
Author
Louis Kahn
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Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art. – Adolf Loos

Category:
architecture

My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after Im gone. – Julia Morgan

Category:
architecture

I wouldve been intrigued by being a film director. I wouldve been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture. – Charlie Rose

Category:
architecture

I would fix other peoples lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines. – William Devane

Category:
architecture

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